Lidl Reviews

I ve been doing some shopping at my local Lidl in Staines Surrey since it opened though not my full weekly shop Scottish salmon fillets are excellent both regular and lightly smoked and have the edge on Aldi s Tried their seabass fillets this week - excellent and again the edge on Aldi Cod fillets and fillet steak are very good as well Not had any problems with any of the fruit and veg I ve bought either This week I thought I would give chicken breasts a try It wasn t till I got home that I found I d got the free range version but I had great hopes none the less Well I have to say I was extremely disappointed indeed The one I ate was very tough chewy and stringy Not easy or pleasant to eat but I persevered I ve the other one to eat tomorrow Needless to say I WON T be buying again and I m loathe to try the basic ones Use by date was 28Feb24

Lidl offers free bakery products to entice a visit to the store Recently they have stopped identifying any bakery items They mostly look identical bar sone tiny ingredients like raisins nuts etc Bread look identical some may have honey seeds cheese etc it s easy to pick up a bakery item that s not free on your app and you pay I know you may refuse the item but with a queue behind you and having paid one tends not a make a fuss I reckon it s a deliberate con If Lidl considers it s a costly promo Then don t offer freebies It s annoying

Spent around 3000 in Lidl last year and recently forgot to enter registration and received a parking fine Despite having evidence of purchase on the day no will intervene and it feels as Lidl do not care Aldi is in the same town but doesn t need you to let the registration in Another way to make money I guess

I frequently shop at Sevenoaks Lidl as my German wife thinks that she can get German treats there I used to think Lidl is good but now I am concluding that it is unusable for fresh fruit and veg Too much of it is already going mouldy when I unpack eg bags of oranges and a banana two onions in a bag potatoes sprouting and one totally soft This week the easy peel oranges were far from easy peel dry inside and full of pips I left Waitrose because of their price gouging of loyal customers but I will have to reduce use of Lidl due to abysmal quality

Loved lidl my shop is Hainault Now I really don t you have to check their vegetables carefully Their ready to eat Advocados are mostly over ripe so bin them if you don t eat immediately Bought two bags of baby potatoes and they smelt horrible and within a day sprouting You can feel the heat of the overhead lights beating down on the veg that can t be good Today 2 tiger batons for 1 except there weren t any Lots of times at the end of the week there s no full fat 2 pint milk All in all this branch has gone down hill Middle isle is always a mess So it s goodbye from me

So the new store opened in Bromborough and everyone was glad to see it However when visiting noticed that they had 7 checkout tills and no self service tills Everytime since the store opened I have visited there has only been 2 - 3 checkout tills open and queues down the Isles Would it not be benificial to put some self service tills in store for people who only have a few items etc The Aldi in Bromborough had the same issue and did exactly that and got rid of checkout tills for self service I can understand it if you are doing a big shop however if you only have a couple of items but have to stand in a long queue then it becomes a pain and people will go elsewhere Just a thought to Lidl because as mentioned there are 4 or 5 checkouts just sitting there unmanned for most of the time and to me a waste of space

The dreaded vacuum pack mince has arrived at Lidl This has got to be the worst packaging for Mince Meat as it compromises the texture of the meat Sainsbury s started to use this system and it s just useless to cook with Never mind Morrisons are still using the older style packaging where the mince isn t compressed into a large beef burger

Very poor selection of Vegetarian lines and we found that a lot of the items we purchased as a top up shop were bland and lacked any real flavour I cant say that the products on the whole were cheaper than our usual supermarket Sainsburys especially after taking in to account the Nectar prices you get each week Not impressed with the quality or choice You get what you pay for Not a shop I would rush to use again through choice

It would seem the staff members at LIDL Darlington Warrington Wigan branch wakes up on the wrong side of the bed or maybe they don t like their jobs The member of staff on check out this afternoon NO HELLO NO THANK YOU I said to her have nice day she did not look up at me kept her head down and replied you too in a very cold way The customer s behind me looked at me and smiled If you don t like your job or you have problems please leave it at home or don t choose a customer service job Last experience the cashier was upset because I wanted a refund off 20p because the price on the Caramel was not the same price display on the shelves Go Lidl your certainly falling in your customer service

Haven t shopped at Lidl since 1998 but was passing one near Andover Took me 20 minutes to get through the checkout and the shop wasn t even that busy Back to Aldi for me